ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 415

SEC. 15. Upon the redemption of any real estate sold for
taxes and/or assessments under the provisions of this Act, the
said treasurer shall collect and pay to the purchaser or pur-
chasers thereof, interest on the purchase price at the rate of
twelve (12) per centum per annum accruing between the date
of any such sale and the date of such redemption.

SEC. 16. Upon the demand of any owner or owners, of
real estate so sold for taxes and/or assessments, the said treas-
urer shall pay to him or them the difference between the
amount of the purchase price of any piece or pieces of real
estate so sold at tax and/or assessment sale and the taxes,
assessments, interest, penalties and costs and all accrued taxes,
assessments, interest, penalties and costs on said real estate,
due and payable to the said Cottage City Commission or the
town of Cottage City.

SEC. 17. Taxes on personal property shall be collected as
is now provided by law for the collection of such taxes due
Prince George's County.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That whenever any
real estate shall have been bought in, as herein provided, by
the Cottage City Commission, at any tax and/or assessment
sale made under the provisions of this Act and the same shall
not have been redeemed within the time provided for the
redemption thereof, and not set aside by the Court for defects
in the levying of such taxes or the making of such assess-
ments, the said town of Cottage City, as an additional and
cumulative means of enforcing the payment of taxes and/or
special assessments, interest, penalties and costs against real
estate, which have accrued prior to the date of this Act,
or which shall thereafter accrue, and in no wise in derogation
of the remedy hereby given, may, within six months after the
time of redemption has expired, file a plenary proceeding in
equity in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Mary-
land, to re-affirm and finally establish a lien upon said respec-
tive pieces of real estate so sold, to it, for the taxes and/or
assessments, interest, penalties and costs so assessed and
charged against the same and to obtain a decree for the en-
forcement thereof. The owner or owners of each piece of real
estate upon which such taxes and/or assessments, interest,
penalties and costs are sought to be enforced, shall be made
parties defendant in said suit, and, if residents of the State of